Way Huge Supa-Puss Analog Delay Pedal with Tap Tempo Reviews

I was looking for a good analog delay pedal with tap tempo and modulation for my keyboard rig, and the Supa-Puss has more than delivered. It's one of the best sounding analog delays I've come across; warm repeats that gradually decay, does the analog delay-thing where you can make very musical spaceship noises and go into self-oscillation.

I'm most impressed by the amount of tweak-ability that it has. Aside from the standard Delay/Feedback/Mix controls, you can adjust modulation depth and speed (I prefer moderate depth and slow speed for more of a chorus effect, but you can get really trippy here), and it has gain and tone controls (I like gritty, dark repeats).

I've played around with the chase mode, and it is oodles of fun, but definitely best used for more experimental settings. Subdivisions are nice to have either way. One warning: the mix knob is pretty sensitive, but once you get the hang, it's a stellar delay.

The Supa Puss sucks tone and drops the overall volume when activated in the effects loop of the Bogner Uberschall. However, the Supa Puss does not suck tone when placed before the amp in the signal chain. I do not recommend this pedal for anyone using it in the effects loop of their amp. Also, the normal sized MXR Carbon Copy sounds better and has minimal tone suck. Go with the MXR Carbon Copy for a great analog delay. Additionally, the Eventide H9 has no noticeable tone suck in the effects loop or when placed in front of the amp. The Eventide H9 is a great overall choice. Other Way Huge pedals are excellent.

Sweetwater, by far, has the best customer service I have ever seen in any company. They are truly amazing and were so much help, any questions or concerns I had they answered right away and to the best of their ability. I had so many troubles with my pedals and they made it right as quickly as possible. Great business model.

This delay pedal just sucked for me. I had to send it back twice because it kept turning itself off and wouldn't turn back on for days. It worked well when it did work but was just too unreliable...

I love analog delays and currently own an EHX DMM reissue from mid 2000's, Dunlop Vapor Trail and the Supa-Puss. I've owned many others over the decades too. Each has their place, but the Supa-Puss is the most versatile and is the current winner on my main pedalboard. I've had it since December 2017 and have been using it in a band situation with great results.

Older versions of the Supa-Puss had issues with feedback/repeats which trailed off too quickly and an over-sensitive gain control. Dunlop (owner of Way Huge) will modify and return them for a nominal fee, but its a shame that earlier versions tarnished the reputation of this great delay pedal.

The only issue I had was the Mix control, which was difficult to make fine adjustments to. The slope of the control was very steep in the first 15% of the range. I contacted Dunlop and they advised they would modify that for a $20 fee if I wanted to ship it to them. I have some electronics repair experience, so I inquired what the mod was and did it myself. (Removed R79 from main PCB) Unless you have experience working with tiny SMDs, I'd recommend letting a pro do it. Now, the sweep on the mix knob is much more gradual and linear. I can actually make adjustments to the mix knob with my foot while playing which is a BIG deal for me and how I use the pedal live.

I also read complaints on message boards about weird artifacts when using longer delay times or gain settings above 12 o'clock. Weird artifacts are what I expect from an analog delay. I actually PREFER having the ability to overclock, degrade and bit crush the repeats into a tortured swirling cacophony... (Think Radio Head's ending for Karma Police)

The modulation controls work well and sound superb. I use this pedal with clean tones to insanely overdriven settings. I can find unique, interesting textures of my own and also have the ability to match many sounds I hear on albums from artists who use analog delays. It takes some patience to do this, it takes time and even research on the web to see how others emulate the delay techniques of people like the Edge, David Gilmour, Robert Fripp, and others.

The ability to run on battery, deliver a huge feature set and supplying truly inspiring analog delay tones is why this delay will hold a spot on my board for the foreseeable future.

This is definitely the craziest analog delay pedal that i I have ever played.
Now, I also own the Aqua Puss amd Echo Puss, since the Echo Puss is basically an improved Aqua Puss (or at least that is what I understand) the echo puss has the modulation controls in the front of the pedal along with others like tone I think. Now, these two pedals sound great! They have an amazing warmth and just really good analog tone.
Not so much with the Supa Puss. Now, the Supa Puss has the most amount of features, it's the longest but it doesn't sound the same... even with the gain (grit) knob all the way down you still hear that kind of concrete room type dynamics. Very lo fi. I don't say this as a bas thibg because some of you might like the lo fi wuality of the repeats or like me, you just have so many other great soundig pedals that it's ok to play somethig as gritty and lo fi ish as the supa pus.
But that is just the tip.
The supa has modulation controls depth, rate. Gain which adds grit or distortion and tone ... also when you press the feedback button you select a different sibdivision... there is something about the J Tripps subdivisions for me that are incredibly musical and rythmic, even on the echo puss it has that dotted 8th rythmic tone it dmsounds great. But anyways the supa sounds great in any subdivision you choose. It goes up to 900 ms a serious lenghth for an analog delay!!! It has a tap tempo button , another unexpected feature for an analog delay and it can go up to 3 or 4 seconds with the tap tenpo button and it creates an extremely degraded, bit crushed signal that is , oh my god... heavenly... all of this can only be done with digital control... and trips came out with the "Digital Brain , Analog Heart" a lot before chase bliss... but hey, I love chase bliss... not knocking it.
All of this is incredibly inspiring and you can come up with very weirs textures, oscillation and just crazy sounding repeats. Oh but when you press and hold the feedback button the subdivisions start to sequence. So they move feom one to the other making this glitchy, tremolo like effect... you have to hear it to understand .
You can chance the speed, the order of the sequence it can go one way, backwards, random, two on one side two on thw other... man did George put a lot of thought and love into this pedal and it might be one of the most underrated pedals in the way huge line.
Hook it up to an expression pedal for extra fun!
Bottom line, this pedal does what most pedals don't. Even digital ones. It's a little hard to tame at the beggining with the mix knob and gain , but you get used to it quickly... people takong off 2 stars because of something like that seems a little harsh but everybody can judge the gear however they want.
This oedal can be a ver simple delay, just select the time and repeats. Or it can be a more complicated beast. But not too complicated. But your choice.
I think this pedal is definitely worth having. It's very unique, very high quality, very fun, very good, by the way the guy that made this George Trips has also made the aqua puss, carbon copy, helped with the line 6 , and many ither delays. He is the delay master!

This is an awesome analog delay which you can create some crazy custom patterns. Worths every penny. Welcome to the world of inspiration.

I have lots of other delay pedals but there's something about this that brings out different ways of playing. It has some grit so it's not a super clean digital delay. While it doesn't have presets it has that immediacy of hands on knobs. The modulation and tone controls give a surprising amount of flexibility. The delay knob gives up to 900 ms delay and you can stretch it up to 3 seconds using the tap tempo but that results in some wild aliasing (like ring modulation) effects, which are either really annoying or maybe interesting (your call, right). It is kind of pricey and I got mine used but I was comparing it to a deluxe memory man and it won (and I love EHX stuff)...

I am still looking for the right delay. I am a pedalsteel player and a big fan of analog delays. I would like to have a tap tempo feature though. I don't like the modeling delays. They sound amazing until you start being able to hear the algorithm or "wow and flutter" sample. So I was very excited about the supa puss.
The IMD (Intermodulation distortion) makes it unusable for steel guitar. It becomes a problem with the tight moving intervals I use regularly. Makes the sound too big and muddy. There are analog pedals I love the sound of but they don't have the tap feature. Oh well.... the search continues

I bought mine here at Sweetwater and returned it with no problems.

Sonically I am very happy with this. In the most basic settings, it makes you want to play music which is the highest compliment. As you will see in other reviews there are many levels beyond basic settings that allow for unanticipated inspiration, another big plus. On the minus side the wet/dry control goes from totally dry to 50% dry and 50% wet within the first little teeny bit of rotation. It is quite difficult to fine tune anything in between. Then you have most of the rest of the travel of the knob without much change until you reach all the other side where you suddenly slam to no dry and all wet. Fine for the studio but if you want to grab a knob in a live setting and adjust the balance it's really hit or miss (a lot of miss). If it had a normal intuitive and user friendly mix knob this would get 5 stars from me.

Wow. Wow. This is a fantastic delay pedal that sounds so good and has so many features. It has an exquisite analog sound w/ low noise, delays that decay with such character and texture, and a long list of features: expression pedal input, very easily-accessible battery compartment, tap tempo, 4 time divisions plus some crazy "Chase" modes that cycle through the note divisions as you play, modulation that gives you some really cool sounds to blend in with the delayed signal, drive control to add some crunch to the delayed signal, tone control to make the delayed signal sound dark to bright, and the choice to instantly kill the delays when the pedal is bypassed or have them trail off naturally. Like the Sweetwater product description says, you can get everything from short slap-back delays to massively wide-sounding swells. Add just a little bit of a delay from this pedal to anything to give your guitar sound a little extra depth and richness, or crank up the delay and the modulation to get some gnarly sounds! The ONLY thing I would change about this pedal is make it possible to control multiple parameters with an expression pedal. You will not be disappointed with the beautiful tones from this pedal. Worth every penny!

Awesome modulation, great controls. Some people say the sound is a bit bright like a surf slap but it gets really cool underwater sounding crazy feedback etc.

Full Disclosure: I don't work for Way Huge/MXR/Dunlop, and am not getting paid for this review; but I REALLY love Way Huge! I own the Swollen Pickle, the Fat Sandwich, the Green Rhino, and the Pork Loin. When it comes to pedals, if Jorge Tripps designed it, I want it. With that in mind...

This pedal = MIND: BLOWN! A schedule conflict took me away from it, and now over 7 hours later, I can't stop thinking about the killer tones I was getting. This pedal has the richest feature set of any analog delay (and most digital ones) on the market (AFAIK). I won't waste your time rehashing the description. But I will tell you a few things you won't find in the description:

1. Like all Way Huge products, the build quality is crazy good. Everything feels solid and built to withstand the rigors of regular gigging or a lifetime of getting stepped on.

2. Dimensionally, this pedal is the same length and height as the others in the line, but it is a bit wider.

3. The "Gain" knob is VERY sensitive. Just a little dab'll do ya. Unless you WANT a crazy, out-of-control-noise-feedback-freakout, then go for it.

4. The modulation is awesome. I was able to add just enough to get a very convincing U2 "Bad" / "Unforgettable Fire" sound. Again, lots of range on these knobs, go slow.

5. The "Tone" knob is very helpful in getting the perfect amount of dark "grunt" out of your delayed notes.

6. Sounds great after a good OD pedal. Plays nice with other pedals.

7. For as much as it does, it's exceptionally user friendly.

I've used or owned most of the other delays on the market: Boss, Line 6, TC Electronic, Digitech. If I could only take one delay with me on a world tour, it would be the Supa Puss. It's that good.